Mumbai:
The Devendra Fadnavis government of Maharashtra has retreated a few days after making Hindi mandatory for primary classes, with strong objections from opposition parties and Raj Thackeray’s MNS (Maharashtra Naveen Sena).
The state’s school education minister Dada Bhusa said, “We have decided to make Hindi mandatory in the school according to the GR previously issued in this regard.”
This step was urged by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to cancel the decision by the Language Counseling Committee of the Government of Maharashtra.
Between rigorous resistance, writing on the wall was clear last week.
After making Hindi mandatory two days after the government order, Mr. Fadnavis had said that only Marathi was mandatory in Maharashtra.
“Everyone should learn it. Also, if you want to learn other languages, you can do this. If someone opposes Marathi, it will not be tolerated,” Mr. Fadnavis said to reporters, while expressing surprise about the opposition to Hindi and surprising about the promotion of English.
A large -scale resistance for the government move was spoken by Raj Thackeray in terms of “Hindi imposing”, who asked Maharashtra to follow the example of South India, where Tamil Nadu’s decision was protesting against DMK Hindi.
But on 17 April, when the government order on compulsory Hindi came, his response was fast.
He said in a statement, “Whatever is your three -lingual formula, limit it to government affairs, do not bring it into education,” he said in a statement. MNS, he said, “Everything will not allow the current efforts of the central government to be successful in this state.
Congress Legislature Party leader Vijay Wadatiwar demanded that the state government immediately withdrew the notification, stating that Hindi was forcibly imposed as a third language “there is an injustice for Marathi and an attack on the identity of Marathi speakers”.
